>>11900928Yes, but it won't stop you from doing math.
Dyscalculia is an inability to do arithmetic, not math. It doesn't affect spatial reasoning, analogy or abstraction. It is just an expressive disorder that makes moving data back and forth in short term memory difficult.
People with dyscalculia cannot recall addition or multiplication values and swap them back and forth in an algorithm without forgetting where they are in the algorithm or what they just had to recall.
However, they usually don't have accompanying problems with spatial conservation or transformation in the same way or if they do it is because they never learned spatial problems because they were held back by problems of quantity.
It is not related to dyslexia which is an interpretive disorder, but is related to dysgraphia which is also an expressive disorder.
It is hard to diagnose in scientists because they learn to compensate, and the test contains arithmetic operations such as logarithms and different bases that most people don't remember anyway that allow those who compensated to still pass the test.
If calculating makes you tired or anxious, but doing calculus does not, you may have dyscalculia.
